Evidence for an enterovirus as the cause of encephalitis lethargica

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dourmashkin, Robert R ^a   Dunn, Glynis ^b   Castano, Victor ^a   McCall, Sherman A ^c  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXSACKIE VIRUS B4; CYTOPLASM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROGLIA; NEUROPIL; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PURKINJE CELL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS LIKE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE, POSTENCEPHALITIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84862307686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-136     Document Type: Article

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